Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?

Songbird76

Songbird76

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Goofyernmost said:
I think it's half and half, I eat a lot of carrots and have to wear glasses. I also, as previously stated, am not all that heavy into eating fish and I am very likely dumber then a box of rocks. So no positive action with the carrots and no help from no fish in the diet as predicted. Who knows, maybe both are a major old wives tale and are just something we eat. Hey, it could happen! ;) :D
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There are actually a LOT of myths about what's good for you. The carrot thing was apparently started in WWII because Germans were bombing English cities at night. England developed a radar that could detect the German bombers before they reached inland, and shoot them down, but they didn't want the Germans to know about this new technology. So they told everyone that they were able to see the German planes because they ate carrots, which improved their night-time vision. And the citizens believed it too and started eating carrots so they'd be able to see when the Germans were approaching and could take cover.

Then there was something about...maybe milk? I want to say something about farmers having an excess of milk that no one was buying so they got doctors to tell people it was essential to good health? And there was also something about fiber...like that human digestive systems can't absorb fiber.....I don't remember. E has looked a lot of things up and I think they learned about some of it in biology or chemistry or something, but I don't remember most of what she said now. But apparently a lot of what we think about what we need and what's bad for us is based on propaganda to get us to buy more of one thing and less of something else.
 
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Lilofan

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Songbird76 said:
There are actually a LOT of myths about what's good for you. The carrot thing was apparently started in WWII because Germans were bombing English cities at night. England developed a radar that could detect the German bombers before they reached inland, and shoot them down, but they didn't want the Germans to know about this new technology. So they told everyone that they were able to see the German planes because they ate carrots, which improved their night-time vision. And the citizens believed it too and started eating carrots so they'd be able to see when the Germans were approaching and could take cover.

Then there was something about...maybe milk? I want to say something about farmers having an excess of milk that no one was buying so they got doctors to tell people it was essential to good health? And there was also something about fiber...like that human digestive systems can't absorb fiber.....I don't remember. E has looked a lot of things up and I think they learned about some of it in biology or chemistry or something, but I don't remember most of what she said now. But apparently a lot of what we think about what we need and what's bad for us is based on propaganda to get us to buy more of one thing and less of something else.
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It’s not a myth but

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

The saying is to promote healthy eating as preventative maint to medical issues. One peer at work said to me years ago he can’t afford healthy food and all he can afford is junk food. I told him raw spinach is on sale at Wal Mart but he replied he would rather buy junk food instead of eating spinach. 🙄
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Songbird76 said:
There are actually a LOT of myths about what's good for you. The carrot thing was apparently started in WWII because Germans were bombing English cities at night. England developed a radar that could detect the German bombers before they reached inland, and shoot them down, but they didn't want the Germans to know about this new technology. So they told everyone that they were able to see the German planes because they ate carrots, which improved their night-time vision. And the citizens believed it too and started eating carrots so they'd be able to see when the Germans were approaching and could take cover.

Then there was something about...maybe milk? I want to say something about farmers having an excess of milk that no one was buying so they got doctors to tell people it was essential to good health? And there was also something about fiber...like that human digestive systems can't absorb fiber.....I don't remember. E has looked a lot of things up and I think they learned about some of it in biology or chemistry or something, but I don't remember most of what she said now. But apparently a lot of what we think about what we need and what's bad for us is based on propaganda to get us to buy more of one thing and less of something else.
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That's the way I feel about how it has happened. The human race has always been easy to con. Some of it is not harmful, like eating carrots, and some of it was and is harmful.

Except for my time in the service, where they forced fitness upon me, I have been overweight (or as the medical people like to say to further shame us into being thin, "morbidly obese") all my life. Not your 600 lb. life overweight, but above what they like to call healthy. I know that it really means that we eat to much and not always healthily about that they are right. At my age it is dangerous to make statements like this but all the people I knew, my age, that have passed away, were slim and trim, some in their 50's, yet I still am alive. Kinda makes one wonder.

I don't believe in being stuck on one thing, like no carbs, unless it helps to control Type II diabetes, is all that healthy. I have a daughter that is strictly no carb isn't thinner (she's not anything other than middle age fluffy) but she is sick all the time has colds every other week and has no energy/stamina. In other words any extreme is not good for anyone. Plus it worries me the amount of cholesterol she takes in daily. That to me is more unhealthy than being a little on the large economy size.

I think that I eat relatively healthy, just probably more then is essential. I like somethings and not others but I have been willing to try most everything once. Even went to a buffet once that had pigs ears available. I tried them mostly to gross out my grandson, but it makes those "magically" over sized, taste like ham, Turkey Legs seem like a gourmet meal.

Everyone is different, every body has a built in regulator that makes it easy to be thin or easy to be overweight. My son in law, or human garbage disposal as I call him, makes me faint just watching him and what he eats. They have three mostly grown kids and he will eat his meal and whatever is left over from the kids plates or anything within reach and he, as my mother used to say, "is so thin you can read the lords prayer through him!" Makes me kinda angry because I love to eat and if I did that I would be making money on one of those 600 lb. life programs.
 
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JenniferS

JenniferS

When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Lilofan said:
Sounds like my experiences checking into one of the NC/SC motels off if I-95 late night. Have to ring the bell for check in help so the owner operator wakes up from a deep sleep in the small apt directly behind the front desk where he lives with his wife and little kids.
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Mike and I had the exact same experience in SC a few years ago. It’s in one of my trip reports somewhere. Nastiest room we’d ever stayed in.
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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Lilofan said:
It’s not a myth but

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

The saying is to promote healthy eating as preventative maint to medical issues. One peer at work said to me years ago he can’t afford healthy food and all he can afford is junk food. I told him raw spinach is on sale at Wal Mart but he replied he would rather buy junk food instead of eating spinach. 🙄
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In his defense, eating a bag of spinach wouldn't thrill me either. ;)
 
trr1

trr1

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Goofyernmost said:
That's the way I feel about how it has happened. The human race has always been easy to con. Some of it is not harmful, like eating carrots, and some of it was and is harmful.

Except for my time in the service, where they forced fitness upon me, I have been overweight (or as the medical people like to say to further shame us into being thin, "morbidly obese") all my life. Not your 600 lb. life overweight, but above what they like to call healthy. I know that it really means that we eat to much and not always healthily about that they are right. At my age it is dangerous to make statements like this but all the people I knew, my age, that have passed away, were slim and trim, some in their 50's, yet I still am alive. Kinda makes one wonder.

I don't believe in being stuck on one thing, like no carbs, unless it helps to control Type II diabetes, is all that healthy. I have a daughter that is strictly no carb isn't thinner (she's not anything other than middle age fluffy) but she is sick all the time has colds every other week and has no energy/stamina. In other words any extreme is not good for anyone. Plus it worries me the amount of cholesterol she takes in daily. That to me is more unhealthy than being a little on the large economy size.

I think that I eat relatively healthy, just probably more then is essential. I like somethings and not others but I have been willing to try most everything once. Even went to a buffet once that had pigs ears available. I tried them mostly to gross out my grandson, but it makes those "magically" over sized, taste like ham, Turkey Legs seem like a gourmet meal.

Everyone is different, every body has a built in regulator that makes it easy to be thin or easy to be overweight. My son in law, or human garbage disposal as I call him, makes me faint just watching him and what he eats. They have three mostly grown kids and he will eat his meal and whatever is left over from the kids plates or anything within reach and he, as my mother used to say, "is so thin you can read the lords prayer through him!" Makes me kinda angry because I love to eat and if I did that I would be making money on one of those 600 lb. life programs.
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health.clevelandclinic.org

Can Eating Too Many Carrots Turn Your Skin Orange?

Ever wonder if there’s any truth to turning orange after eating too many carrots? A dermatologist breaks it down for you.
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JenniferS

JenniferS

When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
trr1 said:
health.clevelandclinic.org

Can Eating Too Many Carrots Turn Your Skin Orange?

Ever wonder if there’s any truth to turning orange after eating too many carrots? A dermatologist breaks it down for you.
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I can always tell when an infant starts eating jarred baby food. (This “make your own” baby food wasn’t that big of a thing 30 years ago.)

Most commercial veg and meat/veg jar food has carrot (or sweet potatoes) as the number one ingredient. They’re sweet, cheap, and babies like the flavour.

Just look for the orange nose.
 
JenniferS

JenniferS

When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Just took some very expired cough medicine. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

This is the only cough medicine I can take - that doesn’t make me climb the walls, or literally get down on my knees in hotel bathrooms and count the penny tiles. I’m slightly allergic to it (either the alcohol or the Red Dye #40), but by golly it works.

My ears are burning and my chest is flushed, but I’ve totally stopped coughing.

This might actually be an early night for me.
 

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